Whodigs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

One hallmark of freedom is the sound of laughter.

Fromlittle acorns mighty oaks do grow.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

The average man’s life consists of: Twenty years of having his mother ask him where he is going, Forty years of having his wife ask the same question; and at the end, the mourners wondering too.

Wecould never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us.

A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.

We ownalmost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who havediffered.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic.

The mostdramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men butbetween a man and himself where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.